S-Video

This past weekend I made the 0.4.0 release of BeagleBox. This is a major milestone for the project because it establishes the baselines for two of the core software componets, the bootloader and the kernel. I made a public release on SourceForge and updated the source and build pages on […]

BeagleBox: V0.4.0 released, wiki updated

Mon December 06, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged angstrom / BeagleBox / bootloader / BUI / dvi / dvi output / S-Video / sd card / sourceforge / u boot

Tonight I built the linux-omap-dss2 repo (master branch) from gitorious.org and tried it. This is the repo from the guy working on the OMAP DSS2 support in the kernel. And viola! S-Video output is once again working! BeagleBox now defaults to mainline u-boot (2010.09, at least) an this branch of […]

BeagleBox: DSS2/TV-out success!

Wed December 01, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / DSS2 / mplayer / NTSC / omap / S-Video / TV-out / Video

Trying to come to grips with the myriad of source trees from which BeagleBoard related source can be pulled, I updated the BeagleBoard build system the other day to make it easier to pull from the various archives. Technically there are four ways to get source related to BeagleBoard: A […]

BeagleBox: finding Mr. DSS2

Wed December 01, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / bootloader / DSS / DVI-D / git / HDMI / kernel / omap / S-Video / TV-out / video display (updated 4889 days ago)

It’s a wonder what you can get done once the board actually boots up to a shell prompt. Tonight I completed setup of inittab and boot scripts – along with customization of the rootfs build – to force writes normally bound for the rootfs to end up on a tmpfs […]

BeagleBox: tmpfs for writes, for now, but new u-boot ...

Mon November 15, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged angstrom / BeagleBox / boot scripts / getty / git / inittab / S-Video / sd card / sysinit / tv screen

I fiddled with the u-boot env variables tonight to try and resolve the S-Video problem. One trick from the BeagleBoard mailing list said to set omapfb.mode=tv:ntsc and omapdss.def_disp=tv. I tried this but found that if I tried to run the boot manually to pick up these changes to the bootargs […]

BeagleBox: which u-boot am I fiddling with?

Tue October 19, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / NTSC / omapfb / S-Video / sd card (updated 4930 days ago)

All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images. I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together. I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]

BeagleBox: reality sets in – boot issues

Sun October 17, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / TV tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot process / BUI / buildroot / DSS / dvi / Linux / LPDDR / mplayer / NTSC / omap / root filesystem / S-Video / sd card / SGX / Video (updated 4932 days ago)

Most of the ordered parts have arrive, including the BeagleBoard. Man, is that a tiny board for so much capability! I can’t wait to bring it up. Still waiting on the USB hub and 1G SD card. I had to move a 25-in-1 USB-based card reader from my main development […]